Value check & question on MKII PCB

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This may be a technical question but since its also a price check, lets try the general area first.

So finally, after going thru 2 PCB's and 3 Sound PCB's, I now have 2 working MKII PCB's and only one of the 3 sound PCB's are working.

Now heres my dilemma. One PCB is a single PCB version and another is a 2-board version. Both are revision 3.1. What are each worth, and whats the better one for me to keep? Is it even worth selling one? I could keep one and put the challenger hack on it, I'm undecided. Keep in mind whatever I sell will either be PCB only or can include a defective sound PCB, and I do have an extra set of cables.

Soooooooo what would you do?
 
Keep it all. I went thru 3 mk1 boards with their assorted sound boards to find something that worked, and its starting to screw up after 5 months of service.

Those mk boards are all starting to fail :(
 
MK boards are notorious for having problems, and unless you need the money I'd keep them. The challenger chips on one board that you can plug into the sound board is a great idea, I love the challenger chips but sometimes it's nice to be able to quickly switch back to the original 3.1 w/o having to swap the roms. I have both boards and run them off the same Sound board.

The 2-board set is the same as the 1 board set, the only difference is they were able to put bigger memory chips on the later boards which consolidated everything onto one board. For me, I just find the 1 board set easier to deal with and prefer that one, but all in all it really doesn't matter.

Having bad MK boards is part of having a MK Arcade collection IMO :) On top of that, I think the MK4 board is the most fragile/troublesome out of the bunch, I had to go through 3 boards and the 3rd one was finally working correctly.. but still has a minor bookkeeping error, lol (livable and not an issue).

I keep my stack of MK boards around in case I need them or can switch out bad roms from one with a non-working board that has those particular Roms working. If you love the game, I'd keep them around.

As far as how hard the boards are to find, I'd say you can find 1 and 2 really easy, UMK3 is more difficult, and fully working MK4 is the most difficult.

Good luck! MK is one of the best fighting game franchises of all time and well worth the effort to keep running, I have all 4 cabs and refuse to sell any even though I have very limited space!

PS, if you haven't seen the new MK9 Trailer, check it out, it's amazing!
 
Well, whats a working MKII PCB worth? (minus sound PCB)

Where can I find the Challenger hack aside from eBay?

Oh, and does anyone know what usually causes the sound PCB to go bad? Caps maybe?
 
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